Run More Validation Cycles on Bigger Chips in Less Time
Our dynamic duo meets today’s requirements for pre-silicon verification of advanced SoC designs as two tightly integrated systems, Cadence® Palladium™ Z2 Enterprise Emulation, optimized for rapid predictable hardware debug, and Cadence Protium™ X2 Enterprise Prototyping, optimized for highest performance multi-billion gate software validation.
Cadence Dynamic Duo Advantage
The Right Tool, for the Right Job, at the Right Time

Portfolio of Products
Designs and software are growing in complexity. Cadence provides a comprehensive solution for IP and SoC verification, hardware and software regressions, and early software development.
Palladium Emulation
Our newest emulator, the Palladium Z2 system, offers the fastest, most predictable compiles and most comprehensive pre-silicon hardware debug capabilities.

Protium Prototyping
Our newest prototyping platform, the Protium X2 system, offers the highest performance and fastest bring-up times for pre-silicon software validation of billion gate designs.

Verified with Cadence
Learn how our customers use the Dynamic Duo to optimize workload distribution between verification, validation and pre-silicon software bring-up and adopt a shift-left methodology to accelerate their product development process.